Haejeok : badaro gan sanjuk
Directed by:
Seok-hoon LeeCinematography:
Yeong-ho KimCast:
Nam-gil Kim, Ye-jin Son, Sulli, Kyoung-young Lee, Hae-jin Yu, Nae-sang An, Tae-woo Kim, Chul-min Park, Dal-hwan Jo, Dal-su Oh, Won-hae Kim, Jeong-geun Shin (more)VOD (1)
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On the eve of the founding of the Joseon Dynasty, an unprecedented robbery shocks the nation-in-waiting: a whale has swallowed the Emperor's Royal Seal, and a bounty placed on its retrieval. Now, every infamous gang of thieves, thugs, pirates, and government agents take to the seas, battling the elements, creatures of the deep, and each other to possess the mother of all rewards. (Well Go USA Entertainment)
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I got a completely different film than I expected. At the beginning it seems to be a predatory action ride and uncompromising carnage and it turns out to be very a entertaining, historical-adventure tale with beautiful visuals and setting (the high budget can be seen in every frame) and, most of all, an amazing cast, Ye-jin Son is delicious here. The fight with the shark and the whale hunt were great, the rest of the action was fine with some slow motion but no blood. So yeah, entertaining enough, but I would have preferred to see it in a rougher style...:) 75%
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Popcorn's historical adventurous farce with expensive setting, which is ruined by childish humor and even more annoying over-stylized CGI action sequences that have no pace thanks to the overuse of the wannabe slow down scenes, in other words, they become a painful parody of themselves during the initial fencing in the rain.
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Unnecessarily overlong, full of empty scenes with empty dialogue. The jokes were cliched, but I was still quite entertained. The acting wasn't bad, but it didn't particularly impress me either – the sparks just didn't fly. Most of the time I was rather bored and waiting for something decent, and in the end there was a pretty good battle, but even so it didn't grab me by the heart. A bit too empty a film for me.
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